02206cam a22002417 4500001000600000003000500006005001700011008004100028100002300069245014100092260006600233490004100299500001800340520116500358530006101523538007201584538003601656690008101692710004201773830007601815856003701891856003601928w4496NBER20170818012253.0170818s1993 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aFeldstein, Martin.14aThe Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Taxable Incomeh[electronic resource]:bA Panel Study of the1986 Tax Reform Act /cMartin Feldstein. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc1993.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w4496 aOctober 1993.3 aThis paper reports new estimates of the sensitivity of taxable income to changes in tax rates based on a comparison of the tax returns of the same individual taxpayers before and after the 1986 tax reform. This comparison is done by using a panel of more than 4000 individual tax returns created by the Treasury that matches tax returns for the same taxpayers in different years. The analysis emphasizes that the response of taxable income is much more general than the response of traditional measures of labor supply and is likely to be much more sensitive to tax rates. The evidence shows a substantial response of taxable income to changes in marginal tax rates. The differences-of-differences calculations imply an elasticity of taxable income with respect to the marginal net-of-tax rate that is at least one and could be substantially higher. There is a brief discussion and simulation analysis of the implications of these estimates for the likely impact of the 1993 tax rate increases on tax revenues. Even the lowest estimated elasticity implies that the tax rate changes enacted in 1993 will lead to little additional personal income tax revenue. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web. 7aH2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue2Journal of Economic Literature class.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w4496.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w449641uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w4496